Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series, which highlights the year’s most talked about screenplays, continues Dream scenarioA24’s surreal dark comedy from Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli that plays with the decades-long permeation of Nicolas Cage’s imagination.
In the live title of the Toronto Film Festival, produced by Square Peg – the flag of heir to the throne And Beau is scared Helmer Ari Aster – Cage plays Paul Matthews, an ordinary biology professor whose life takes an unexpected turn when he appears in the dreams of people around the world. At first Paul is amused by the situation, but later his attitude becomes one of horror and frustration as people’s dreams of him turn into nightmares and he is ostracized by the public for acts that only occur in their minds.
Dream scenario is the English-language debut of Oslo-born Borgli, who made his breakthrough with his dark comedy, which premiered at Cannes in 2022. I am sick. During an appearance at Deadline’s Toronto studio in September, the filmmaker explained that part of the idea for his latest film was to think about how his father might be “playing around” by “trying to have a viral moment navigate.” “in this very modern way”. be known.”
Cage felt he came to the project with the “life experience” needed for the role, given his own explosive viral moments over the years through memes and YouTube compilations like “Nicolas Cage Losing His Sh*t.”
“Nothing could have prepared me for what happened to me than Nick Cage with the Internet. I think I might have been the first actor to experience something like that,” he said. “It was confusing, it was annoying, it was stimulating, it was confusing. I didn’t know what to do with it.”
Also with Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula and Dylan Baker. Dream scenario was released on November 10. In addition to Aster from Square Peg, Lars Knudsen and Tyler Campellone, the producers also include Jacob Jaffke and Cage.
Read Borgli’s script below.
Source: Deadline
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